The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1952. Country house. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- nether-jade-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1952
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Rectory Lane, Claypole, NG23 5BH
- OS grid reference
- SK 851 491
- Coordinates
- 53.0325, -0.7311
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a small country house that dates back to the 17th century, specifically 1683, with later additions from the 18th and 19th centuries. It features a mix of red brick, gault brick, rendering, and some ashlar dressings, topped with plain tiles and concrete tiles on the roofs. The north front, which is rendered red brick from the 17th century, has three stone-coped gables with kneelers and irregularly placed stacks at the rear. The south range, dating from the 18th century, is encased in gault brick from the 19th century and has a hipped roof with irregular stacks at the rear. There is a plain 19th-century block to the east with a hipped roof and a single tall ridge stack, as well as a late 19th-century block to the west.
The north front has two storeys and five bays, featuring an off-centre doorway beneath a 19th-century gabled porch with burnt header decoration, ashlar dressings, a four-centred doorway, and two three-panelled doors. There is a single central staircase window with a segmental head, and to the east of the porch, there is a single window with two segmental-headed windows above. To the west of the staircase window, there are two ground floor windows with segmental heads and two additional windows above. All windows are fitted with 20th-century glazing bar sashes.
The south front also has two storeys and five bays, with a brick and stone plinth and a dentillated brick band at the first floor. The central ground floor window has been altered to create a doorway with three-quarter glazed doors, flanked by two windows, with five windows above, all featuring plain sashes. All ground floor openings have stone lintels.
Inside, there is an oak dog-leg staircase with a half landing, barley sugar balusters, a moulded handrail, and a date of 1683 on the newel post. The roofs of the three gables and the four-bay roof over the main north range retain few modern timbers, with curved braces and purlins tenoned into the tie beams. Both the north and south ranges include late 18th-century niches and fireplaces.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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